Tag: Geraldine Chaplin
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #96. Jessica Woodworth’s Luka
Luka
Shot in glorious B&W and Super 16mm, Belgian-American filmmaker Jessica Woodworth mounted this solo adventure utilizing the backdrop of Sicily back in October of...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022: #64. Jessica Woodworth’s Fortress
Fortress
They've been sharing co-directing duties since their inception with 2006’s Khadak, but there was only one director's chair on set of Fortress. Jessica Woodworth...
The Barefoot Emperor | 2019 Toronto Intl. Film Festival Review
Barefoot and Stagnant: Woodworth & Brosens Continue Their Belgian Political Satire
While one doesn’t necessarily have to be readily familiar with the 2016 film King...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #120. The Wind Blew On – Katrín Ólafsdóttir
The Wind Blew On
Iceland’s Katrín Ólafsdóttir should be set with her extremely promising debut, a dystopic sci-fi Western The Wind Blew On. Producing alongside...
Same Song Different Dinosaur in Bayona’s Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom | Blu-ray Review
While it took in over a billion dollars globally, nearly half of that at the domestic box office, J.A. Bayona’s addition to Spielberg’s dino...
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom | Review
Thy Will Be Done: Bayona Burps a Blip in the Ongoing Dinosaur Franchise
Looking back, Steven Spielberg and Michael Crichton had already marred the magic...
Cop-Out (1967) | Blu-ray Review
Belgian film-noir staple Georges Simenon remains a genre stalwart thanks to his enduring status in his native country and France, where his indefatigable detective...
The Moderns (1988) | Review
Bujold’s last appearance with Alan Rudolph is in 1988’s The Moderns, a high-minded, sometimes amusing attempt to examine the potent ex-pat community of 1920s...
ZPG (Zero Population Growth) | Blu-ray Review
Today, director Michael Campus is best remembered as an alum of Blaxploitation, thanks mostly to 1973’s The Mack, which featured an early role for...
A Monster Calls | Review
Cover Up Love’s Alibi: Bayona Delivers Sensitively Portrait of Childhood Grief
Rounding out a loosely themed trilogy on traumatic motherhood, director J.A. Bayona, once protégé...
The Forbidden Room | Blu-ray Review
Canadian auteur Guy Maddin continues to be something of an acquired taste, at least judging from the domestic box office of his latest, The...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2016: #7. Juan Antonio Bayona’s A Monster Calls
A Monster Calls
Director: J.A. Bayona
Writer: Patrick Ness
Spanish director Juan Antonio Bayona adapts Patrick Ness' celebrated children's book A Monster Calls for his third feature....
The Forbidden Room | Review
Dreams! Visions! Madness!: Maddin & Johnson’s Extravagant Symphony of Silent Cinema Fantasia
Those familiar with the works of auteur Guy Maddin, sometimes referred to as...
Love Unto Death/Life is a Bed of Roses | Blu-ray Review
Cohen Media Group presents a double feature of two mid-period films from French auteur Alain Resnais, both significant titles overlooked on a resume of...
2015 Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 7: Donzelli’s “Marguerite & Julien” is “Small Change”
I've been there before. One week into the strenuous daily grind that is Cannes and the tired journalist/critic might think twice about a project featuring...
Through the Looking-Glass…Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2016: #1. Juan Antonio Bayona’s A Monster Calls
A Monster Calls
Director: Juan Antonio Bayona // Writer: Patrick Ness
Spanish filmmaker Juan Antonio Bayona began as one of the talents supported by Guillermo Del...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2015: #67. Valerie Donzelli’s Marguerite et Julien
Marguerite et Julien
Director: Valerie Donzelli // Writers: Valerie Donzelli, Jeremie Elkaim
Director and actress Valerie Donzelli has fostered a considerable career as a director over...
The Dreamers: Valérie Donzelli Completes Casting for “Marguerite et Julien” (aka Abandoned Truffaut Project)
Valérie Donzelli, the actress-turned director who we most recently caught as a supporting player in the garishly dressed Saint Laurent, Bertrand Bonello's stylized biopic...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2013: #32. Guy Maddin’s Spiritismes
Spiritismes
Director: Guy Maddin
Writer(s): Evan Johnson, Robert Kotyk
Producer(s): Phyllis Laing
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available
Cast: Charlotte Rampling, Geraldine Chaplin, Maria de Medeiros, Mathieu Amalric, Udo Kier, Amira...
